Speaking to a star-studded audience at a fund-raiser in New York, she inexplicably decided to abuse, denigrate and mock tens of millions of her fellow Americans.

‘You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,’ she sneered. ‘Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it.’

The well-heeled, affluent, liberal, metropolitan elite crowd at super-fancy Cipriani restaurant in Wall Street, where Barbra Streisand and Rufus Wainwright performed that same night, whooped and hollered.
Friday night Hillary Clinton decided to abuse, denigrate and mock millions of Americans. ‘You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,’ she sneered

Friday night Hillary Clinton decided to abuse, denigrate and mock millions of Americans. ‘You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,’ she sneered

I didn’t. Like many, I just winced when I saw it.

It was an astonishingly crass thing to say.

Far worse, I would suggest, than Mitt Romney’s infamous 47% gaffe during the last election campaign, when he suggested half the country were entitled victims.